Reading and expressive writing with traumatised children, young refugees and asylum seekers : unpack my heart with words
Unpack my Heart with Words explores how literature can be used to help young victims cope with their experiences. The process of reading, discussing and rewriting carefully selected texts can have a significant therapeutic impact, as the young person identifies his or her own experience in the narra...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London :
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
2014.
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| Series: | Writing for therapy or personal development series
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009799133706719 |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1 Terror and the Telling: Entering the Young Asylum Seeker’s World. War trauma, abuse and the interrupted narrative
- Linking external and internal worlds: forming a relationship
- Self-narration and identity: therapeutic writing that reconstructs and reconnects
- Living in two cultures: 'I am neither here nor there'
- Part 2 Mapping the Terrain. Healing words have a history
- Approaches
- Processes
- Transformative books: a key to unlocking trauma
- Core competencies: training and organisations
- Aims, ethics and good practice
- Part 3 Derring-do: Entering the Symbolic World. Trauma and word-play
- Accessing trauma through images, symbols and metaphors
- Writing traumatic dreams and fantasies
- The therapeutic use of fairy tales and myths: fantasising empowerment
- Using poems and fiction for developmental listening/reading/writing
- Part 4 Social Dynamics. The value of commonality and community
- The facilitator's group skills
- Part 5 Brain Works: Putting the Mind to It. Trauma, memory, narrative: the creative brain
- The brain, literature and trauma
- Part 6 Mapping the Research: The Efficacy of Writing on Trauma: An Evaluation. Controlled laboratory studies and 'real-world' projects
- Interapy: therapy online, future research.
